innocence

When Winston-Salem native Zyrale Jeter’s mother sent him away to college in Orangeburg, S.C., she was hoping to give him a fresh start. “I wanted him to get away from Winston-Salem,” explained Paulette Williams, Jeter’s mother. “I wanted him to...

Two years ago last week, the state of Georgia ignored the facts, doubts and pleas of hundreds of thousands of people and killed Troy Anthony Davis. Today, on the anniversary of his execution, we rededicate ourselves to ending the immoral, biased...

A panel of death penalty opponents used the one-year anniversary of the execution of Troy Davis to call for the elimination of a system that they say is broken. Davis’ case attracted international attention. In 1989, Davis, an African American, ...